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Collection of data. there's a lot of sftuff that ges collected. if there is a criminal investigation that is going to move forward based on the collection of the data for an american citizen you need a warrant to move forward with that. i don't think that's going to kill anything. i think that's going to protect civil liberties and it will be interesting to see what happens here. but we all believe that fisa has an important role to play that we do need to reauthorize fisa, but this has been a problem, it's called the about collection without appropriate measures to protect u.s. citizens and t...

Fisa is a statute that's been around since 1978. it covers how electronic surveillance can happen in the united states on u.s. citizens. so any fisa surveillance that would have happened on someone in his campaign, say paul manafort would have required a court order, for everybody in the states. 702 is about targeting non-u.s. persons outside of the united states. nothing to do that would have potentially happened at least with the people that he's referring to there and as far as the steele dossier i did fisa warrants when i was in the fbi and you have to go into court and corroborate every f...

Intelligence community's most important tools in order for us to be able to collect foreign intelligence on the threats that face this country. it's one of the tools that we use for making sure that iran complies with the 2015 deal, with making sure that north korea is not trying to acquire the materials to move forward with their nuclear program. when i saw the president's tweet this morning it was really startling for the entire intelligence community and as you indicated i talked to people who said that the president's national security team, leaders in the intelligence community, went into...

First off as we wait for the speaker here, what is happening with -- i do want to talk about the political future, but let's talk about the fisa bill that is currently on the floor, a busy day on capitol hill. what is happening there as the president undercut his party, and then back pedalled because we understand now, we just got in that apparently president trump and house speaker paul ryan spoke after the first tweet where the president knocked fisa this morning. >> i think you saw in the president's first tweet and then his followup tweet, this idea since the campaign really that the presi...

Concerned about the first tweet, did it create any problems, he said there were two tweets and that was helpful to resolve some of the concerns from the right. this came after an effort of pretty significant lobbying effort by the administration officials to make sure that there were -- that there was a separate amendment by civil libertarians did not get added on, an amendment that would provide additional safeguards on this warrantless surveillance program. they believe it would essentially end the effort to surveil as part of this fisa legislation and they successfully killed that amendment...